[Dragaera] agnosticism (no flame) (was, long ago: (no spoilers) The 17 [Great Weapons])

[Howard Brazee]

Maximilian Wilson wrote:
> The implicit belief is that things can be assumed to not exist until
> evidence for them appears. (H. P. Lovecraft might have had fun with that
> idea.) This is not intrinsically more rational than the opposite position,
> or any one in between.
>
> -Max
>
>   
That would be a belief system - but a non-belief in Chuthulu until we 
have some evidence works.

Instead of the Easter Bunny, I don't believe in a pink house with a 
purple polka-dotted roof in Seattle - there might be one, and if shown 
some evidence, I could easily acquire a belief.